Harmon Named Nurse Manager of Center for Infertility and Reproductive Surgery and Center for Assisted Reproduction

For more than 30 years, Sandra Harmon, MSN, RN, has been a NICU nurse, caring for tiny newborns and their parents. In March, she shifted gears and became nurse manager of the Center for Infertility and Reproductive Surgery and the Center for Assisted Reproduction.

“Now I’m trying to help couples have the babies they want so much,” said Harmon, who was assistant nurse manager in the NICU for the past five years.

In her new position, Harmon works with 31 employees, including 13 nurses, and partners with Mark Hornstein, MD, director of the Center for Infertility and Reproductive Surgery, in running both outpatient centers. “The staff here are wonderful,” she said. “I am so impressed with the level of professionalism and how much they care for our patients.”

She emphasized the true partnership between nurses and physicians. “They truly manage the patients as a team with nurses following patients closely in between physician visits. The nurses do a great job of that.”

Harmon also is involved in supporting one of the center’s satellite offices, which opened in June at the Brigham and Women’s/Mass General Health Care Center in Foxborough. “Two of our physicians see patients there, and one of our nurses here follows those patients,” she said.

Harmon began at BWH in 1984 as a staff nurse in the NICU. Prior to that, she worked as a nurse in the NICU at Women and Infants Hospital in Rhode Island. She earned her MSN from Vanderbilt University this year.